The César E. Chávez Institute (CCI) faculty and staff engage in studies that include factors of resiliency and strength, as well as processes that empower communities in their struggles for equality and self-determination. CCI aims to bridge academic research and the practice of community empowerment though multiple approaches – including participatory action research – that make their studies and research findings accessible and useful to policy makers, service providers, educators, and community advocates.

Research efforts are clustered in a set of initiatives that encompass an array of programs, projects, and services:

Adolescent Health Initiative

• Family Acceptance Project
• Substance Using Youth in Northern California

Educational Equity Initiative

• Bayview/Hunters Point Youth Development Organizational Capacity Project
• Critical Pedagogy in Practice
  
• Ethnic Studies in Urban Schools
• Pin@y Educational Partnerships
• Research Collaborative on Youth Activism
• Step to College: Urban Teacher Pipeline
• Youth Bill of Rights Project
• Youth Organizing Pipeline Project
  

Latino Laborers Initiative

• Latino Laborer Health Ethnographic Study

Gay Men of Color Initiative

• Collaborative Evaluation of Black Brothers Esteem Project
• Community Involvement as a Protective Factor for the Prevention of HIV
  
• Impact of Stimulant Use in Latino Gay Men
• Randomized Control Trial of Hermanos de Luna y Sol
• Social Network Intervention to Reduce Negative Impact of Methamphetamine Use in Latino Gay Men